Identifies and reviews the evidence for some potential functions of proximity seeking in infancy. Data pertaining to a variety of species are reviewed. (Author/SS)

Tested the persistence over 24 hours of reward-expectation habits in infants. A comparison was made between the responses of two groups of infants (infants with a history of reinforcement with large, complex mobiles, and infants with no prior history of reinforcement with mobiles) on a task reinforced by a small mobile. (Author/SS)

The author discusses some of his experiences during the 13 years he has taught handicapped infants to swim. Lessons are usually given for a 10-minute period daily and progress is recorded on a swimming behavior chart. (PHR)

A predictor set was developed consisting of mother's democratic attitudes, child's temperament, and amount of child's time spent outside the home that allowed for correct prediction of 75 percent of the children, with an overall miss rate of 20 percent and a false positive rate of 29.6 percent. (Author/CL)

Traces the history of "Infant Care," the Children's Bureau's most popular publication (and the Government Printing Office's all-time best-seller) from its inception to the present. Touches briefly on a few of the many insights offered in the 13 editions. (Author/RH)

One-year-old middle-class infants (N=41) were observed in a free-play setting, administered 11 structured tasks to assess their persistence in mastering tasks, and given the Bayley Scales of Infant Development. As part of another study, home observations were available for 40 of the infants at age one and for 23 of the infants at six months of…

The ability of 18-, 24-, and 30-week-old infants to learn conceptual categories regarding adult female faces was examined using a habituation paradigm. (JMB)

An observer stared continually at each of 573 children who passed along a definable pathway in a large shopping center. Most infants did not make eye contact with the observer, the majority of toddlers established eye contact but did not gaze avert, and the preponderance of school-age children gaze averted. (Author/JMB)

Assesses television influences on infants six months of age at home. Sound only, picture only, sound plus picture, or a control stimulus of unpatterned sound plus picture conditions were designed. Findings demonstrate that infants attend to the naturalistic presentation of television stimulation and respond differentially to its visual and…

Results of two experiments suggest that the initial head-turning preference of an infant is related to the holding preference of its mother. (JMB)

The author points out the need for early screening for ophthalmologic disorders and reviews symptoms of various eye disorders. Among the types of eye pathology considered are retinoblastoma, retrolental fibroplasia, congenital glaucoma, congenital cataracts, congenital strabismus, chlamydia oculogenitalis, orbital cellulitis, and eye injuries.…

Six- to 7-month-old infants were tested on their ability to discriminate among three speech sounds which differed on the basis of formant-transition duration, a major cue to distinctions among stop, semivowel, and diphthong classes. (Author/PHR)

In an attempt to assess the status of the object concept, visual fixation and cardiac deceleration were recorded for 36 infants, 20-24 weeks old, during three kinds of events in which objects moving on a linear trajectory were temporarily occluded by a screen: (1) a familiar object appeared on both sides of the screen; (2) a novel object appeared…